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☆ Tiffany Haddish said she got so much hate that she made a fake Instagram, hunted down her trolls, and confronted them
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tiffany Haddish described taking revenge on people trolling her online. The actor and comedian said she used a fake profile to hunt down where mean comments came from. AdvertisementTiffany Haddish said she got so much hate online that she used a fake Instagram profile to hunt down her trolls, and even called some of them directly. Speaking to The LA Times, Haddish said she decided to fight back, creating a fake Instagram profile under the name "Sarah," to track her haters down. A lot of the comments called the star "pedo" and "not funny."

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☆ Kevin Hart calls Katt Williams 'sad' after the comedian slammed him and other famous comics in a new interview
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-04 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewKatt Williams has gone viral for his appearance on Shannon Sharpe's YouTube show "Club Shay Shay" in which the comic unleashed a bevy of disparaging comments on several stars, including fellow comedian Kevin Hart. "My frustration with Katt Williams comes from you keep pointing at Hollywood, Hollywood this, the white man, this, this and this, when do you take responsibility for your actions?" Following Williams' appearance on "Club Shay Shay," Hart took to X (formerly Twitter) to react to Williams while also promoting his upcoming movie on Netflix, "Lift." Please enjoy MY MOVIE TRAILER to my next film “LIFT” which will be dropping on @netflix in 8 days!!!!! Please enjoy MY MOVIE TRAILER to my next film "LIFT" which will be dropping on @netflix in 8 days!!!!

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Until the embittered end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few of a distrusting Richard Nixon. Political Cartoons View All 1273 Images“No doubt my vanity was piqued,” Kissinger later wrote of his expanding influence during Watergate. Two years later, Saigon fell to the communists, leaving a bitter taste among former U.S. allies who blamed Nixon, Kissinger and Congress for abandoning them. “The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy,” Kissinger tells Nixon. And so they did — the Quaker-born Nixon, the Jewish-born Kissinger, on the floor, Nixon in tears about the unfairness of his fate.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Tiffany Haddish was arrested Friday and charged with driving under the influence, police said. The actor and comedian was detained after Beverly Hills police received a call about 5:45 a.m. Police said she appeared to be found slumped over the wheel of the vehicle while the car engine was still running. Haddish, an Emmy and Grammy winner, performed at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles on Thursday night. Last year, Haddish was arrested on suspicion of DUI in suburban Atlanta. In 2018, Haddish won an Emmy for her appearance on “Saturday Night Live” and a Grammy in 2021 for her special "Black Mitzvah.”

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☆ Netflix aims to 'crawl, walk, run' when it comes to video games. It's still crawling
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Drew Richardson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Former Electronic Arts mobile gaming executive Mike Verdu joined Netflix as vice president of game development in 2021. Getting existing subscribers to download and play mobile games is a challenge, though, Benes noted. As of September 2023, Netflix's games have been downloaded 70.5 million times, globally, according to data obtained from Apptopia. The beta rollout to limited users Canada and the U.K. included Oxenfree from Night School Studio, a Netflix game studio, and Molehew's Mining Adventure, a gem-mining arcade game. But Netflix is not looking to be a console replacement, Netflix gaming executive Verdu previously told Tech Crunch.

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☆ I'm a C-suite exec at PwC who still struggles with imposter syndrome. Here's how I manage it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( J.C. Lapierre | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She writes that her career wouldn't have been possible if she had given in to imposter syndrome. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I don't know what I'm doing. I know that when you're feeling like a fraud, it can be tempting to keep quiet when you don't know something. But I'm also certain that if I take the steps above to control what I can, I'll manage to swim to the surface again.

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For Drock, a lobbyist who lives in Washington, DC, and his wife, the road to a $1 million net worth by 35 was littered with trade-offs. Drock told Insider there are three lifestyle tradeoffs that have had an outsized impact on his and his wife's ability to build wealth. "When I first asked her to consider moving, she literally cried," Drock wrote in a blog post. It turned out to be a "key decision for our financial life," he said. Their combined income stands at $300,000 a year, "which still seems surreal to me," Drock wrote on his blog.

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☆ Netflix to make its games playable on more devices
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoAug 14 (Reuters) - Netflix (NFLX.O) will test games on select TVs and computers in a first step to make them playable on more devices, the company's vice president of Games Mike Verdu wrote in a blog post on Monday. The streaming platform had begun its push into the gaming experience by launching Netflix games on mobiles in November 2021. "Oxenfree" from Night School Studio, a Netflix Game Studio, and "Molehew's Mining Adventure", a gem-mining arcade game, will be part of the initial testing. "By making games available on more devices, we hope to make games even easier to play for our members around the world," Verdu said. Netflix said games on TV will operate on select devices from initial partners Amazon Fire TV Streaming Media Players, Chromecast with Google TV and Roku devices, among others.

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☆ Netflix sets its sights on video games for its next chapter as growth slows for the streaming giant
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix launched its video game streaming service in November 2021, investing in mobile app games. The pivot to interactive streaming comes as Netflix's growth has slowed to single digits. As Netflix chases younger audiences and grapples with keeping its current subscribers content, the streaming giant has fixed its sights on a new chapter: video games. In late 2021, Netflix began dabbling in creating its mobile app games. The pivot to video games comes as Netflix's growth has slowed tremendously — according to records kept by Stock Analysis, the company's annual growth had never been below 12% until last year.

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☆ Inside Netflix's growing M&A machine, who's leading it, and what insiders think the streamer could buy next
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

It then delved further into M&A to kickstart its games business. And the streamer hasn't completely abandoned its build-from-within strategy, as it also announced plans last fall to build its own gaming studio in Finland. He recently was elevated to the Lstaff, a group of 25 Netflix business heads who debate its biggest initiatives. (Netflix ended up doing a partnership in 2019 with that company, Studio Dragon, and its parent CJ ENM.) But leadership has been steadfast that Netflix's M&A mantra hasn't changed.

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☆ You don't need a college degree to work for this member of Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Ethan Dodd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

College degree requirements lock millions of Americans out of jobs. Persistent labor shortages have caused some states and companies to drop degree requirements. However, persistent labor shortages have helped call such degree requirements into question. Craig said she is the first member of Congress to officially drop degree requirements for congressional staff. "Every job description should consider: Does this job actually need a four-year degree," or is relevant experience sufficient, she said.

☆ White Lotus star Aubrey Plaza ate peanut butter for lunch and got fired a lot in her early acting days: 'It's not a good feeling — it sucks.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sitting down with WealthSimple for their "Money Diaries" series, the now "White Lotus" star took on a taboo subject: Money. She wasn't born into means — but her parents worked hard to change their circumstancesThe actress was no stranger to humble living. My dad grew up in a really, really bad neighborhood in Philadelphia. She added, "The irony is that [my dad] actually didn't teach me anything about money — and that's what he does." But as usual with Plaza, you can't really tell if she means it, from the look on her face.

☆ Netflix is still hiring for hundreds of roles across its games studio, engineering teams, and more. Salary data shows how much the company has offered for 180 different jobs.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Netflix offered base salaries between $40 an hour and $800,000 a year for certain roles, data shows. The company doesn't disclose salary data, but, like other US firms, it discloses how much it plans to pay workers it hires on US visas. Many of the roles offered six-figure base salaries. Netflix may choose to pay employees more than the figures reflected in this data or compensate them in additional ways. Based on the data, Netflix offered annual base salaries ranging from $40.45 per hour to $800,000, with a median of $184,080, for various roles.

☆ Netflix is doubling down on gaming, with dozens of new hires and a dedicated studio, as it chases younger audiences and battles to turn back subscriber losses
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix is making dozens of hires and opening a studio in Finland to bolster its mobile games push. Netflix is hirings dozens of experts to bolster its year-old push into gaming. A recent Forrester survey of Netflix subscribers, reviewed exclusively by Insider, showed only 5% had played one of Netflix's mobile games in the previous month, while 4% said its mobile games keep them subscribing, and 54% said "I could care less" about games on Netflix. However, the streamer in September announced it was opening a games studio in Helsinki, Finland. But there's a lot of competition in mobile gaming and for consumers' attention, Proulx added, and it's an open question "how hard they should press with their strategy."

☆ Netflix is hiring a slew of engineers and developers to bolster its gaming push as subscriptions fall off
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix is making a slew of hires and opening a studio in Finland to bolster its mobile games push. Netflix is hirings dozens of experts to bolster its year-old push into gaming. However, on Monday, the streamer announced it was opening a games studio in Helsinki, Finland. Another listing, for a senior games engineer, shares that "Netflix is building a new internal game studio to incubate and build a new class of hilarious, social party video games." But there's a lot of competition in mobile gaming and for consumers' attention, Proulx added, and it's an open question "how hard they should press with their strategy."

☆ Netflix is opening a video game studio in Finland as part of latest pivot into gaming
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The streaming giant is building its first in-house video game studio in Helsinki, Finland, as it expands its empire over mobile games, Netflix announced Monday. The new gaming studio will be helmed by Marko Lastikka, a veteran from gaming giants Zynga and Electronic Arts, Netflix VP of Game Studios Amir Rahimi said in a blog post. Rahimi said the new studio, however, will be built “from scratch.”Monday’s announcement brings Netflix’s total number of gaming studios up to four. Netflix’s Rahimi said each studio has “different strengths and focus areas” and together will develop a diverse suite of games for Netflix users. Netflix Games have been live for a little over a year now.

☆ Netflix says it's opening a video game studio in Finland as streamer tries to boost audience numbers
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Jack Stebbins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Netflix said Monday it will be opening an internal game studio in Finland. This is the company's first push into internal game development since streaming giant entered the mobile gaming space in November 2021. The company has already purchased three external game studios over the past year. Netflix already has a cache of over 20 mobile games available for download to Netflix subscribers, and the company plans to have 50 by the end of the year. The streamer's foray into gaming is in its early stages, but, as of August, not many Netflix subscribers were playing.

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